Piratebay helps out Wikileaks generate donations

Two years ago, Wikileaks had obtained a leaked copy of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), once discussed in Congress secretly.

The Bill contains what was known as the "Pirate Bay-killer", to criminalize non-profit facilitation of copyrighted information exchange on the internet.

This might explain why Piratebay's co-founder Peter Sunde reminded his Twitter retinue to donate money to WikiLeaks through his micro-donation site, Flattr.
With over 2,443 Flattr donations for its Afghanistan War Diary, Wikileaks generated a spike in Flattr traffic.

"As long as there is no sign that they are doing anything illegal, we will continue," Flattr spokesman Niklas Silfverström told The Local on Thursday.

Sunde described the site as "not actually micropayments, it's nanopayments" in an FT.com Tech Blog article in July.

"The idea had already been initiated in 2007, but the first release was in 2010 due to typical geeky laziness," the company wrote on its website.